Tag: Camera
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Interpreting Images: Agapanthas and the Night
When the poet Emily Dickinson wrote, “Tell all the Truth but tell it Slant,” she was talking about writing. But she could have also been talking about photography. Sometimes looking at something, even when improved and beautiful, is not the end. Here’s an agapantha blossom, improved and beautiful. There are more ways to look at…
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Mobile Photography on a Run
Once again, the camera you have with you is the best one particularly when you are mobile. When I’m out for a jog, my Canon is just too big to carry but my iPhone is the perfect size for mobile photography. I used my trusty Camera+ app to capture this intimate porch nook among the…
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Saffron Stamens & Wrinkled Petal Sheets
Saffron stamens rise from wrinkled petal sheets blushed warm by the morning sun. I passed this same light play last week but without my mobile photography “camera” or iPhone. On this particular early morning, I set out at 6:30am with a mission to catch these mantilleja or mantilija poppies in the act of perking up to the…
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Blue Moon Camera Delights
In Film to Phone and Back I wrote about my return to film. It just so happened that doing so required actual film and a battery. In a display dominated by memory cards, my local CVS had a very small selection of mostly out of stock consumer grade films. Each box was dust covered. Not…
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An Altar in the World
Barbara Brown Taylor’s meditation on reverence in her book A Geography of Faith: An Altar in the World (2009) put words to what causes me to pick up the camera to take a picture. With the help of classical philosopher Paul Woodruff she defines reverence as “the recognition of something greater than the self” (p21) Even…
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From Film to Phone and Back
From Film to Phone and Back I returned home from a recent iPhoneography workshop in Venice, Italy through Il Chiostro with tons of material, skill and ideas for new creations. Ironically, one of the first things I did, when my soul caught up with my body across 9 time zones, was root through my old…
